Foraminifera taxon details
Lituonelloides Henson, 1948 †
739344 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:739344)
accepted
Genus
Lituonelloides compressus Henson, 1948 † (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
masculine
Henson, F. R. S. (1948). Larger imperforate foraminifera of south-western Asia. Families Lituolidae, Orbitolinidae and Meandropsinidae. <em>British Museum (Natural History).</em> 1-127.
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Diagnosis Test elongate, about 1.8 mm in length, early conical stage with trochospirally enrolled chambers, later laterally...
Diagnosis Test elongate, about 1.8 mm in length, early conical stage with trochospirally enrolled chambers, later laterally compressed, and chambers uniserial, rectilinear, and discoidal, outer part of chambers forms an undivided marginal zone, apparently bordered by a ridge, central region with lamelliform interseptal buttresses that may coalesce as irregular partitions or pillars; wall calcareous, imperforate, microgranular, with some foreign particles; aperture multiple, consisting of perforations in the central shield. U. Cretaceous (Maastrichtian); Arabia: Qatar Peninsula. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
Hayward, B.W.; Le Coze, F.; Vachard, D.; Gross, O. (2025). World Foraminifera Database. Lituonelloides Henson, 1948 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/foraminifera/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=739344 on 2025-05-23
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original description
Henson, F. R. S. (1948). Larger imperforate foraminifera of south-western Asia. Families Lituolidae, Orbitolinidae and Meandropsinidae. <em>British Museum (Natural History).</em> 1-127.
page(s): p. 26 [details] Available for editors [request]
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Diagnosis Test elongate, about 1.8 mm in length, early conical stage with trochospirally enrolled chambers, later laterally compressed, and chambers uniserial, rectilinear, and discoidal, outer part of chambers forms an undivided marginal zone, apparently bordered by a ridge, central region with lamelliform interseptal buttresses that may coalesce as irregular partitions or pillars; wall calcareous, imperforate, microgranular, with some foreign particles; aperture multiple, consisting of perforations in the central shield. U. Cretaceous (Maastrichtian); Arabia: Qatar Peninsula. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification) [details]
